Ray Brown (rugby league)

Ray Brown
Playing information
Position Hooker, Second-row, Prop
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
197?–7? Griffith
1979 Western Suburbs 23 5 0 0 15
1980–86 Manly-Warringah 92 4 0 0 14
Total 115 9 0 0 29
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1983 New South Wales 3 0 0 0 0
1982–83 Australia 6 0 0 0 0
Source: Rugby League Project and Yesterday's Hero

Ray Brown is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he played club football in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership for the Western Suburbs Magpies and the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles.

In 1978, Brown was awarded the Country Rugby League's Player of the Year. His club at the time was Griffiths Waratahs.[1] The following year Brown played one season for Western Suburbs and moved on to Manly-Warringah in 1980.

Brown was also selected to represent New South Wales as hooker for game II of the 1983 State of Origin series and was on the reserve bench for games I and III.[2]

As an Australian Kangaroo, Brown played in five Tests - four in 1982 (Great Britain twice, France and Papua New Guinea) and one in 1983 against New Zealand.

Brown was named at hooker for the Western Suburbs Team of the Seventies.[3]

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